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“Fears that strength training puts developing bodies at greater risk of bone damage, growth plate injury and stunted growth are “old-school thinking,” says Brenner, director of the Sports Medicine Program at Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, Va.

“It’s the No. 1 myth about strength training, and absolutely false,” Faigenbaum says. More than a decade of research shows strength training is safe for kids if properly supervised and planned, he adds.”

80,000 subscribers reveal what they want most of all – stronger self confidence – on Mental Health Exposed

(From Coach David Alexander; If you want Real Self Confidence then take a Self Defense Lesson or Seminar with myself or a Strength & Conditioning 4-pack of training sessions. I cannot think of anything else in this world that could give you more Self Confidence then knowing how to protect yourself or your family from violence or being stronger and in better shape to take on life’s obstacles.)

Thursday, May 17, 2012 by: Mike Bundrant

When you feel safe, you DON’T feel stressed, angry, jealous, anxious or depressed. All of these emotions, in one way or another, result from a perceived lack of emotional safety. When you feel fundamentally safe, you are fundamentally relaxed.

It makes sense, then to take a proactive role in your own safety. Listen to this episode to learn specifically how to accomplish this.

Technique #1: How to stop the fight before it ever happens. This is the most important technique of them all!Technique #2: End the fight in less than 4 seconds with this DEVASTATING MOVE! (Outlawed in the UFC).Technique #3: Use this lightning fast technique to hasten a quick escape.Technique #4: Collapse your attacker by scrambling his brain using this technique.Technique #5: Use this strike to cause massive soft tissue damage to your attacker while avoiding damage to yourself.Technique #6: Leave high flying spin kicks to Hollywood; I will show you the two kicks that actually matter in a real fight.Technique #7: Devastate your attacker with a blow to these two very specific targets.Technique #8: Smash one of these into your attacker and turn his lights out, while you casually walk away.Technique #9: How to take your attacker off guard using just two fingers and make him scream for his mother.Technique #10: Turn the toughest street thug into a whimpering mouse with this brutal technique (not for the faint of heart).

Each Street Fighting Secrets Revealed Seminar also includes these BONUSES! (If time permits):

Bonus Training #1: How to avoid being shot by a gun, stabbed by a knife or beaten with a club plus how to shoot a gun, stab with a knife and beat someone with a club., Bonus Training #2: Chokes & Strangles plus How to avoid getting Choked or Strangled., Bonus Training #3: Takedowns that slam the attacker to the ground but keep you standing., Bonus Training #4: Ground Fighting for the street (not sport!)., Bonus Training #5: Cool pain causing moves just to mess with your friends., Bonus Training #6: How to fight multiple attackers…and WIN!., Bonus Training #7: Are pressure points real? Is there really such a thing as a “Death Touch?”

“…that was the SCARIEST and MOST INTENSE seminar that I have ever attended…
…it was also the ABSOLUTE BEST that I have ever attended!” Teri R.

“The best spent 90 minutes of my life…Actually, it may have just saved my life! Diane N.

I feel that I am a Human Weapon after attending this class…Thanks Coach David! Brian S.

“Great lifesaving tools that I hope I never have to use. I feel more confident having learned these skills.” Sean S.

“When you’re in a fight for your life…you better know how to win!”
Coach David Alexander (Self Defense Expert)

This seminar is Rated R for violent themes and adult language. Must be 16 or older with parents’ permission. Sit & watch or participate, it’s up to you. Dress Comfortable. Limited spots available. Sign up at the front desk to reserve your spot. If you need more info please email Coach David Alexander, coachalexander@gmail.com. Or visitCoach Z Training.com

For many people, the very exercises or activities that have been chosen to solve problems actually create problems. There are many examples, but I’ll just list a few:

Jogging: For men, jogging (especially when combined with a vegan diet) is perhaps the most effective form of non-surgical gender-re-assignment possible. All of the qualities we associate with masculinity— strength, power, muscularity, and testosterone levels, are all diminished through chronic jogging. For women, it works similarly: the most successful female distance runners look like pre-pubescent boys. Women who do not possess these physical characteristics will suffer injuries as the body attempts to adapt itself in that direction. For both genders, jogging is tedious, time-consuming, and one of the least effective ways to lose weight. No wonder most people hate it.

Ab Exercises: Sit-ups and crunches don’t make your abs more visible, but they do wreak havoc on your lumbar spine. Why anyone does them is completely beyond me.

Stretching: I’m all for having optimal levels of mobility, but stretching (especially the way most people do it) is somewhere between a complete waste of time and injury-promoting. Better to use full range of motion resistance-training movements and develop strength and mobility simultaneously.

(From Coach David: I found this article interesting. I thought you might like it.)

Top 5 Regrets of the Dying

For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to 12 weeks of their lives.

Critically ill people share several common regrets on how they lived their life — Photo by Ross M. Horowitz /Getty Images

People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learned never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth. Some changes were phenomenal. Each experienced a variety of emotions, as expected: denial, fear, anger, remorse, more denial and eventually acceptance. Yet every single patient found peace before departing. Every one of them.

When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced. Here are the most common five:

This was the most common regret of all. When people realize that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people have not honored even half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they’d made, or not made.

It’s important to try to honor at least some of your dreams along the way. It’s too late once you lose your health. Health brings a freedom very few realize, until they no longer have it.

2. I wish I didn’t work so hard.

This came from every male patient I nursed. They missed their children’s youth and their partner’s companionship. Women also spoke of this regret. But as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence.

By simplifying your lifestyle and making conscious choices along the way, it is possible to not need the income that you think you do. And by creating more space in your life, you become happier and more open to new opportunities, ones more suited to your new lifestyle.

3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.

Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result.

We cannot control the reactions of others. However, although people may initially react when you change the way you are by speaking honestly, in the end it raises the relationship to a whole new and healthier level. Either that or it releases the unhealthy relationship from your life. Either way, you win.

Often they would not truly realize the full benefits of old friends until their dying weeks, and it was not always possible to track them down. Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort they deserved. Everyone misses their friends when they are dying.

It is common for anyone in a busy lifestyle to let friendships slip. But when you are faced with your approaching death, the physical details of life fall away. People do want to get their financial affairs in order if possible. But it is not money or status that holds the true importance for them. They want to get things in order more for the benefit of those they love. Usually though, they are too ill and weary to ever manage this task. It all comes down to love and relationships in the end. That is all that remains in the final weeks: love and relationships.

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realize until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The so-called “comfort” of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to themselves, that they were content. When deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again.

When you are on your deathbed, what others think of you is a long way from your mind. How wonderful to be able to let go and smile again, long before you are dying.

Life is a choice. It is your life. Choose consciously, choose wisely and choose honestly. Choose happiness.

Department of Human Performance and Fitness, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. avery.faigenbaum@umb.edu

Abstract

The potential benefits of youth strength training extend beyond an increase in muscular strength and may include favorable changes in selected health- and fitness-related measures. If appropriate training guidelines are followed, regular participation in a youth strength-training program has the potential to increase bone mineral density, improve motor performance skills, enhance sports performance, and better prepare our young athletes for the demands of practice and competition. Despite earlier concerns regarding the safety and efficacy of youth strength training, current public health objectives now aim to increase the number of boys and girls age 6 and older who regularly participate in physical activities that enhance and maintain muscular fitness. Parents, teachers, coaches, and healthcare providers should realize that youth strength training is a specialized method of conditioning that can offer enormous benefit but at the same time can result in serious injury if established guidelines are not followed. With qualified instruction, competent supervision, and an appropriate progression of the volume and intensity of training, children and adolescents cannot only learn advanced strength training exercises but can feel good about their performances, and have fun. Additional clinical trials involving children and adolescents are needed to further explore the acute and chronic effects of strength training on a variety of anatomical, physiological, and psychological parameters.

UPDATE: Thank you to all the brave souls who participated in the very first MetCon Madness Monday! We had a great time at our very first MetCon Madness Monday at Xtreme Fitness. It was a great day outside, so we took the workout to the parking lot. The workout was as follows:

Our next class will be on April 30th starting exactly at 5:30. Sign up in the Xtreme Fitness Pro Shop to reserve your spot.

FREE CLASS! FREE CLASS! FREE CLASS!

METCON MADNESS MONDAY at Xtreme Fitness! Please sign up at the front desk.

(You do NOT need a membership to attend this class!)

ATTENTION METCON LOVER’s! I will be designing, scaling to different fitness levels and coaching a FREE Class called “MetCon Madness Monday” every Monday at Xtreme Fitness starting April 23rd at 5:30pm. Depending on participation, we might run two sessions back to back.